Baucus’ Oscar winning performance is coming to an end. “Hoold me closer, Ed — it’s gettin’ dark.”

This is the ”bipartisan” plan the Health Care Combine will support — punitively forcing the uninsured to spend thousands on merde insurance.

This is not over.

Shockingly Mornin Joe doesn’t agree with Jimmy Carter. “I don’t know what America he lives in”!

The Congress is back in session and doing the dirty work for the Medical Industrial Complex.

mcconnell $3.3M, hatch $2.9M, baucus $2.8M, grassley $2.7M,
lieberman $2.6M, burr $2.4M, ensign $2.4M, cornyn $2.2M, kyl $2.1M,
conrad $2.1M, cantor $1.8M boehner $1.7M, coburn $1.2M, j wilson 800K
were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform.

Citizens for Tax Justice pointed this out. The tax legislation enacted under President George W. Bush from 2001 through 2006 will cost $2.48 trillion over the 2001-2010 period. This includes the revenue loss of $2.11 trillion that results directly from the Bush tax cuts as well as the $379 billion in additional interest payments on the national debt that we must make since the tax cuts were deficit-financed. Over the upcoming decade (2010-2019), the costs of the health care proposals approved by three committees in the U.S. House of Representatives are projected to be around $1 trillion and deficit neutral(that means they’re paid for). In 2010, when all the Bush tax cuts are finally phased in, a staggering 52.5 percent of the benefits will go to the richest 5 percent of taxpayers. The Bush tax cuts were deficit-financed, which increased the national debt and resulted in greater interest payments on that debt. They never even tried to pay for their tax-cuts. So, for the price of bush’s tax-cuts for the wealthiest 5%, we could have had Health Care for every American. Instead Americans got bupkus and cheney/bush’s republican buddies got filthy rich off of the Blood Money from No-Bid, Cost-Plus Federal Contracts.

12 Million Americans were denied Health Care Coverage by the Medical Industrial Complex because they had a Pre-Existing Medical Condition. 12K Americans lose Insurance Coverage everyday. Over 18K Americans die each day because they lack health insurance. (Source: WaPo Article 05′ by Harvard Prof. E. Warren)

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Call Congress and demand, Single-Payer Health Care for All!

Sign Single-Payer Petition: Link

Don’t let the Medical Industrial Complex steal your Health Care from you and your family by donating huge sums of money to Crooked Politicians in order to maintain the Status Quo. Keep up the good fight.

SEMPER FI!

from wiki

Snowe’s early life contained much tragedy; her mother died of breast cancer when she was eight, and her father died of heart disease barely a year later. Orphaned, she was moved to Auburn, Maine, to be raised by her aunt and uncle, a barber and a textile mill worker respectively, along with their five other children. Her brother John was raised separately, by other family members. Within a few years, illness would also claim her uncle’s life.
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and this cold bitch who is ranked 10 RICHEST in Congress and had health coverage sincwe age 26
DOES NOT SUPPORT HEALTHCARE REFORM

she is SICKO

Think of it as incentivizing: if you don’t have health care you won’t be so badly intentioned as to get sick, see. Makes perfect sense if you see suffering as vaguely offensive stuff that should be shut away somewhere it won’t upset the rest of … humanity, there’s that silly word again.

cleverly produced a plan that still failed to gain a single Republican supporter

Not even the goopers, so used to dealing with two faced bastards of their own, could believe anything that Max the Hack came up with. I wonder whether he believes himself at times.

sadlyyes@5
Snowe is about as disingenuous as one can get, speaking of two faced bastards, of course her BFF is LIkud Joe so what the hell can we expect.

Forced economic leveraging under the color of law designed to enslave a people to corporate interests. This is the enemy from within. Corporate Servitude enabled under the 14th amendment, at the state level, was to grant citizenship or clear the issue of citizenship, Dred Scott. Corporate identity now enslaves us all. Corporations and the usurpation of constitutional right of individuals. Dred Scott was considered property! Now your life is treated as property JUST AS DRED SCOTT WAS CONSIDERED PROPERTY FOR THE BENEFIT OF SLAVE OWNERS DEPENDENT ON THE UNCOMPENSATED LABOR OF SLAVES! SO LETS PROTECT TAX EXEMPT CORPORATIONS CONSIDERED PUBLIC CHARITIES FOR TAX LAW PURPOSES, WHILE AMERICANS DIE AND THE REPUBLIC IS SLAMMED. THE DYNAMICS OF AMERICA’S CIVIL WAR ARE AT WORK HERE AGAIN.

A car is a piece of property. A person’s health is not a piece of property.

CORPORATE SERVITUDE via ECONOMIC ENSLAVEMENT MANDATED UNDER THE COLOR OF TAX PENALTY!!! JEFFERSON IS VOMITING IN HIS GRAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning, pups. It’s MoDo and The Moustache of Wisdom today. MoDo is clutching her pearls on the fainting couch. In “Rapping Joe’s Knuckles” says the pressure from House Democrats, and a handful of Republicans, on Joe Wilson to apologize was a rare triumph for civility in a country that seems to have lost all sense of it. Given some of the stuff that she’s written she’s an authority, I guess… The Moustache of Wisdom, in “Have a Nice Day,” says China and Germany understand that prosperity and growth depend on nurturing a renewable energy industry. When will the United States?

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got banana pancakes this morning. I needed some soft comfort food because the two teeth the dentist worked on yesterday are still playing the anvil chorus in my jaw. I finally drifted off to sleep about 1:30 or 2:00 so of course Hoover had to decide he was in desperate need of attention at 4:00 and let me know by nibbling the end of my nose… Have a great day — I’m going off to find the toothpicks so I can prop my eyelids open.

Sympathies on the dental work, just had a wisdom tooth pulled here. The week on soft food was the worst of it, I never appreciated the ability to chomp on nuts so much.

Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif), was getting the tea party treatment at a meeting with seniors in Fremont when a 65-plus guy in the audience launched into a diatribe about the public option.

The man, to the hoots and hollers of his compatriots in the crowd, concluded with: “Mr. Congressman, don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.”

“I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg, it wouldn’t be worth wasting the urine,” said Stark, who recently referred to Blue Dog Dems as “brain-dread.”

Stark delivers these lines in sotto voce, with mordant humor. Later, when another angry person suggested he was “lying” about the reforms, he said, “Whether you think I’m a liar or not, I still want to get your input — and I’ll make up how I’m gonna lie about it after i get it.”

I was amused yesterday when the goopers, in the House, strutted out every female gooper (goopette?) they could find to “defend” the childish outburst by segregationist Joe. It reminded me very much of the way large corporations tend to trot out female “spokesmen” when they have to apologize for something egregious that they have done.
My mummy will say I am sorry for me.

Not to speak of all those skanks Bush had.

Capeheart is taking Mornin Joe to the shed.

Thanks for the morning laugh Raven!
One has to wonder whether the “over 65″ guy was on Medicare. Nah, he wouldn’t be against government healthcare if he was would he?

He EARNED it!

Morning all. The goopers may have played their hand wrong at this point. They are now defenseless to the charge that they were not going to go along with anything.

““Have a Nice Day,” says China and Germany understand that prosperity and growth depend on nurturing a renewable energy industry. When will the United States?”

Bingo! Energy costs have extracted vast fortunes of liberty from America. Lets protect slave owners??????

Corporate Identity has gutted America. Jefferson and Madison wanted restrictions on amoral monopolies and corrupt corporations. Most people do not realize the King’s “East India Tea Company” doing business in the America’s was a “TAX Exempt CORPORATION,” while the colonist where being unfairly taxed on tea!!!

The IRS grants Tax exempt public charity status to corporations in the health services. Now state and federal tax codes will be used as the mechanism, as a gun to force people to enter into contracts with tax exempt health insurers, who inspite of not for profit status, make billions???????? This is unadulterated malarkey!!!!!!!!

I know I’m being a cockeyed optimist, but part of me hopes that this summer was 12th dimension chess, all set up to make the Republicans come down against even crappy health care plans, in order to trot out a finished plan replete with public option to pass without them.

About the tooth problem. I ignored all advice recently, after an abscessed tooth was removed, and took my antibiotics along wit a healthy dose of Jack Daniels. I felt just fine and I healed up pretty darn quickly.

If the anvil chorus continues this evening (fingers crossed it won’t) I’ve got a bottle of Woodford Reserve whose siren call I may heed.

Large swaths of the American public borders on barbarism. It’s no wonder that health care reform is so “controversial.” Small, lacking compassion, spiteful, mean spirited, selfish and oftentimes woefully undereducated. The fact that many in the U.S. demand capital punishment and see nothing wrong with torture being done in their names is more than enough evidence that barbarism is alive and well in the U.S..

AND

Dear Basil …the wonder…SHAGGYDOG from

http://shaggydogfarms.com/

does NOT I REPEAT…NOT
have a brain tumor

SNOOPY DANCE
WE RETURNED FROM UT LATE LAST NIGHT

To the extent the Senate Finance Committee exists to deal with important issues, maybe it’s time to replace its woefully, Bushesquely incompetent chair, Mr Boopus.

Jack Daniels? It’s an elixir.

saw about 2 hrs of criminal court here…Dui s,possession of drug paraphernalia,vandalism….etc……..Judge was mean and snarky to poor addicts……sheesh..sad

To God’s ears….I so hope you are right.

It’s all of the European Union. GE just announce this week a huge expansion of their wind turbine production in Europe in order to install more off-shore turbine farms. (A small expansion of solar in the US).

Additionally, the EU thought they were going to full renewable energy by 2021 and now it will be by 2015 due to the benefit of the economic growth in renewable energy. It was even suggested that 2012 could be possible.

And we stand way behind the curve, even in r&d for renewable resources.

In Ohio yesterday, after 2 hours of unsuccessfully trying to find a vein a man’s execution was postponed for a week. Europeans find the U.S. using the death penalty as nothing more than barbarism.

The U.S. is lagging behind in so many metrics and will continue to lose ground because of the anchors that are holding the country back, birthers, baggers, deathers, the entire Republican Party and their allies in the corporate media.

This was all just a cover so Senator Baucus could introduce a bill written by the insurance industry. Republicans won’t vote for the bill but they were willing to provide “bipartisan” cover.

But, if the Baucus bill is the one the insurance industry wrote, and wants, why don’t they tell some of those bought and paid for Republicans to vote for it?

It seems like they are forcing the Senate to go all reconciliation on there a55e5. In which case they don’t get their bill… what am I missing?

They’re hopeing enuff Blue Dawgs will not vote for it. With the president all wishywashy on it, they may get their hope

In response to the various tooth posters, here’s a giggle. Some few months back I was chewing on a taco when a big ole molar broke in half. It was the damndest thing and totally unexpected. I reached in and took out the broken hunk, felt the molar with my tongue and nearly cut myself on a sharp edge. I went to the toolbox, pulled out a small flat file and filed away. After about five or so minutes, I felt the edge, and it was sufficiently honed down so as not to be a bother. The only problem is that I can no longer chew gum, which I hugely enjoy. At the moment and for some moments past, monetary concerns have precluded a short visit to the dentist fellow.

Snowe’s objection to Max’s plan is the same one that Rockefeller has–the tax. Yeah, Rock also doesn’t like the lack of public option, but both he and Snowe don’t like the tax. So, it IS bipartisan in opposition.

And a lot of other Democrats don’t like the Max Tax. So, how can you expect the GOP to like it??

I’m curious as to how much money Obama got from the insurance companies.